c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting." — Ingrid Newkirk
"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots." — Barbara Ehrenreich
"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power." — John Steinbeck
"If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands." — Polykarp Kusch
"Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld." — Martha Beck
"For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable." — Christopher Nolan
"They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country." — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea." — Yoshio Taniguchi
"But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasn't even in the running for failure!" — Rupert Holmes
"Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way." — David Hasselhoff
"Death by starvation is slow." — Mary Austin
"The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future." — Tania Raymonde
"The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security." — Chuck Hagel
"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason." — James Madison
"Women are the real architects of society." — Cher
"I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there." — Evan Rachel Wood
"There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away." — Kelly Clarkson
"Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it." — Gerhard Schroder
"Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops." — Jeremy Rifkin
"I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you." — Ann Richards
"A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have." — Steve Jobs
"Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got." — Garth Brooks
"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage." — Jean Anouilh
"People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life." — Carrie-Anne Moss
"I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share." — R. Lee Ermey
"There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people." — Jack Kemp
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that." — Amos Lee
"Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude." — Juliette Lewis
"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists." — Roland Joffe
"I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination." — Chris Cooper
"The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm." — Edward Tufte
"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law." — Henry David Thoreau
"All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women." — W. C. Fields
"I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it." — Ian MacKaye
"Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours." — Phil Collins
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics." — Francis Bacon
"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." — George Burns
"I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba." — Carlos Santana
"Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it." — Buffalo Bill
"On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality." — Candace Parker
"I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before." — John Cusack
"All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge." — James M. Baldwin
"Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America." — Glenn Beck
"Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children." — Jack Kingston
"Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace." — Daisaku Ikeda
"I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!" — Shirley Manson
"Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen." — George Jean Nathan
"Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen." — Lydia Lunch
"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable." — Robert Bork
"The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?" — Dan Quayle
"You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future." — Andy Griffith
"If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you." — Kim Kardashian
"Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society." — Mike Rogers
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes." — Khalil Gibran
"Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there." — Henry Vaughan
"Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions." — John Langdon
"Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns." — John Leonard
"As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good." — Tom Hanks
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." — Peter Ustinov
"Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly." — Swami Sivananda
"Education is not preparation for life education is life itself." — John Dewey
"Jenna's traveled with me they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in." — Laura Bush
"It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible." — John Leeson
"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power." — Bertrand Russell
"I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights." — Richard Hatch
"The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best." — Jean-Paul Sartre
"I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own." — Norah Jones
"Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow." — Monica Edwards
"Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever." — Peabo Bryson
"So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible." — Maria Menounos
"Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true." — Lorenz Hart
"You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen." — William Shatner
"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone." — Lord Byron
"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action." — Tony Robbins
"I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it." — Lana Parrilla
"States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making." — Anna Lindh
"Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned." — Thomas Reid
"At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology." — Steven Levitan
"Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water." — Peter Singer
"Fear is the foundation of safety." — Tertullian
"I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly." — Mason Cooley
"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor." — Eric Sevareid
"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall." — Francis Bacon
"I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here." — Andy Cohen
"To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides." — Liam Neeson
"Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay." — Prince
"To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other." — Josh Radnor
"At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States." — Mitt Romney
"The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong." — Mitt Romney
"I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach." — Damian Lewis
"Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy." — Montgomery Clift
"I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one." — Sally Kirkland
"America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing." — Aloe Blacc
"Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community." — Rod Blagojevich
"A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does." — Barbara de Angelis
"My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff." — Cuba Gooding, Jr.
"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love." — Gilbert Parker
"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment." — Tony Robbins
"I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language." — Patti Stanger
"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate." — John Lennon
"But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition." — Lascelles Abercrombie
"Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively." — Joyce Carol Oates
"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise." — Arthur Erickson
"I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government." — Oliver Cromwell
"When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'" — Steven Wright
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." — Auguste Rodin
"There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow." — Alfred de Musset
"June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope." — Robert Kirkman
"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come." — Ellen DeGeneres
"Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that." — Julie Delpy
"We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic." — Emma Thompson
"It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do." — Whoopi Goldberg
"In time of peace prepare for war." — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
"Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional." — Donald Berwick
"I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success." — Tanya Tucker
"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa." — Eugene Ionesco
"These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror." — Michael N. Castle
"Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death." — Jerry Seinfeld
"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding." — Agnes Repplier
"Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past." — Theodore Roosevelt
"If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression." — Edward Hopper
"I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue." — Donna Dixon
"Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal." — Karl Rove
"St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis." — Andy Cohen
"I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with." — Jeremy London
"Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine." — George Santayana
"I still believe in a place called Hope." — William J. Clinton
"Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went." — John Updike
"Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that." — R. D. Laing
"One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free." — Jack Henry Abbott
"I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country." — Ed Miliband
"Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink." — W. H. Davies
"My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach." — Jay Weatherill
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." — Anais Nin
"Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone." — Abu Bakar Bashir
"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles." — Henry David Thoreau
"Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that." — James Marsters
"What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun." — LL Cool J
"In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God." — Sun Myung Moon
"There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others." — Conrad Black
"Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." — David Herbert Lawrence
"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die." — Alexander Pope
"I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end." — Adam Yauch
"Even God lends a hand to honest boldness." — Menander
"I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music." — Jai Rodriguez
"The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them." — Hank Aaron
"Poetry is the deification of reality." — Edith Sitwell
"I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world." — Frank B. Kellogg
"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn." — Plato
"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth." — Napoleon Hill
"My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo." — Arabella Weir
"The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you." — Natan Sharansky
"When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast." — Roger Clemens
"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion." — Friedrich August von Hayek
"You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'" — Benjamin Netanyahu
"I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary." — Charles Schumer
"For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me." — Kristen Wiig
"I'm a huge sports fan." — Marc Anthony
"Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success." — Rickey Henderson
"The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change." — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect." — Alanis Morissette
"The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it." — Snoop Dogg
"But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors." — Boris Johnson
"I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me." — Leona Lewis
"Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars." — Henry David Thoreau
"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." — John Wayne
"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God." — Euripides
"I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below." — Angus Wilson
"People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul." — Phil Spector
"Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science." — Freeman Dyson
"Miss Child is never bashful with butter." — Phil Donahue
"Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message." — Ted Cruz
"The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise." — Herbert Croly
"I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26." — Jimmy Carr
"The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests." — Charles de Secondat
"I don't think we live in a particularly equal society." — Sienna Miller
"You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness." — Brad Garrett
"Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower." — Richard Rogers
"It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad." — Dario Argento
"To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time." — Leonard Bernstein
"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe." — Alan Watts
"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics." — Heinrich Heine
"No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights." — Muqtada al Sadr
"Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle." — Jane Fonda
"I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me." — Jack Black
"When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there." — Zach Galifianakis
"I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art." — Bill Walton
"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure." — Zig Ziglar
"My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job, I decided to pursue a career in technology." — Susan Wojcicki
"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning." — Oliver Goldsmith
"I do not have any pets. We travel too much." — Nancy Kerrigan
"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too." — Frederick Buechner
"I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well." — Vanilla Ice
"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not." — Thomas Paine
"The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning." — Lewis Thomas
"Belly buttons are cool!" — Lauren Graham
"War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means." — Karl Von Clausewitz
"If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure." — Phil McGraw
"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history." — Russell Lynes
"To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick." — Snoop Dogg
"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion." — Barack Obama
"Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass." — Fran Lebowitz
"Beauty is less important than quality." — Eugene Ormandy
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." — Euripides
"Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics." — H. Rap Brown
"Our work is a scream of freedom." — Christo
"I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband." — Corazon Aquino
"My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace." — Alvin Toffler
"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics." — Emma Goldman
"Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him." — Michael Jackson
"Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now." — Fiona Apple
"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death." — John Thorn
"A well-spent day brings happy sleep." — Leonardo da Vinci
"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death." — Anne Frank
"Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool." — Robert Griffin III
"What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it." — Mark Levin
"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them." — Arthur Erickson
"Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it." — John Cusack
"Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?" — Alan King
"Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion." — Eminem
"For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received." — Storm Jameson
"My dad is a marketing mastermind." — Serena Williams
"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed." — William Blake
"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions." — Andre Breton
"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity." — Lester Bangs
"I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work." — Michael Jackson
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." — Albert Einstein
"I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next." — Sophie Ellis Bextor
"I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity." — Jonah Hill
"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared." — David Ben-Gurion
"They always win who side with God." — Frederick William Faber
"There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty." — John Boyd Orr
"For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide." — Thomas Mann
"You do the work and you want people to see it but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way." — Johnny Depp
"I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess." — Ani DiFranco
"I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity." — Gene Tierney
"Most of us women like men, you know it's just that we find them a constant disappointment." — Clare Short
"Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons." — Ralph Merkle
"I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated." — Avril Lavigne
"Silence is the mother of truth." — Benjamin Disraeli
"If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life." — Ralph Merkle
"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news." — John le Carre
"I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other." — Francois Hollande
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." — Ansel Adams
"My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back." — Denzel Washington
"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open." — Laura Bush
"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me." — Ethel Waters
"When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show." — Jacqueline Emerson
"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde." — Dolly Parton
"I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad." — Christopher Judge
"Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong." — Adriana Lima
"The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing." — Geri Halliwell
"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious." — Blaise Pascal
"And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that." — Clint Eastwood
"I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies." — Samuel L. Jackson
"All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry." — Amy Winehouse
"With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information." — Andrew Shue
"And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face." — Venerable Bede
"Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support." — Kristi Yamaguchi
"Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm." — James Otis
"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence." — Pablo Picasso
"I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running." — Lady Gaga
"I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays." — Zoe Kazan
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing." — C. S. Lewis
"My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States." — Harry S. Truman
"Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe." — Elie Wiesel
"The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other." — Mika Brzezinski
"The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow." — Tiger Woods
"The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication." — Tony Campolo
"I love my beauty. It's not my fault." — Valentino Garavani
"It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else." — Phil McGraw
"Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work." — Kirsty Gallacher
"I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic." — Philip Seymour Hoffman
"It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order." — Asa Gray
"For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever." — Lisa Leslie
"You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all." — Tom Vilsack
"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while." — Henry David Thoreau
"I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith." — Nick Rahall
"These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness." — Anthony de Mello
"All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy." — Jerry Saltz
"For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people." — Jillian Michaels
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" — Albert Einstein
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." — Kenneth Tynan
"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones." — Nicolas Chamfort
"There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community." — M. Scott Peck
"Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside." — Valentino Rossi
"I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week." — Mark Pincus
"Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated." — Tom Vilsack
"There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them." — Abu Bakar Bashir
"I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now." — Regis Philbin
"Music is for every single person that walks the planet." — Robert Plant
"Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness." — Stephen Fry